Sentences with phrase «on upper grades»

The focus is primarily on upper grades — 6 - 12 — and there are lesson plans, videos, and multimedia collections available.

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Children create their own textbooks, moving from copying what their teachers create in the younger grades to writing their own text, based on their learning in the upper grades.

The addition of the upper school, which opened programming to students in grades 10 - 12 for the 2015 - 16 school year, makes Hershey Montessori School the first in the world to fully implement Dr. Maria Montessori's vision for educating children from birth through 18 years, with an adolescent residential program on a working farm.

After an incident in the boys» bathroom early on, the school agreed to let Alex use a unisex staff bathroom in the upper - grade wing.

These soft, raised, strawberry red birthmarks usually appear on baby's head, chest or upper back, are very common and usually fade away by grade school.

Chewing on a bran muffin (there are full kitchens and abundant munchies in all four of the El Segundo buildings), Musk waves a hand at the production floor, where technicians built the Falcon I's space - grade 2219 aluminum alloy fuel tank, its first - stage engine, dubbed Merlin, and the upper - stage engine, called Kestrel.

An upper - grade first - class cabin on the Titanic could cost more than $ 600 in 1912 (equal to about $ 13,000 today), and a suite of rooms much more than that.

Sorel Rylee feature a waterproof suede and textile upper, waterproof breathable membrane, removable molded EVA foot bed with a micro fibre top cover, EVA graded outsole with rubber traction pads, contrasting stitching accents, round toe front, single side buckle detailing and the Sorel branding printed on a

Depending on the maturity level of the child and the parent involvement, this product could be used with K - 8th grade, and it is easy to alter for upper and lower grades.

Before coming to Butler University, Lori was an Assistant Professor at Marian University in Indianapolis and earlier on taught children and adolescents with emotional challenges in the upper elementary grades, worked as a school counselor in Indianapolis, was a private practice counselor and co-owner of the Indianapolis Counseling Center, and was a behavioral consultant for Methodist Hospital, in Indianapolis on the adolescent psychiatric unit.

To further investigate how the effect of later start times varies with age, I estimate the effect of start times on upper elementary students (grades 3 — 5).

They're an earnest bunch and they offer an attractive, teacher - friendly, alternative vision to the data - obsessed ed reform triumphalism that has the firm upper hand in education at present, yet too often defines well - educated as «reads on grade level and graduates on time.»

For me, I knew the moment I read this word problem to my fifth - grade summer school students: «On average, the sun's energy density reaching Earth's upper atmosphere is 1,350 watts per square meter.

Leaders at Haynes, however, are not giving up on boosting diversity in the upper grades.

As I looked around the room, I didn't see that many fat kids, but the ones who have put on a lot of weight are more frequent in the upper grades.

When students do not learn to read by third grade or develop reading difficulties after third grade, as is disproportionately the case for students living in poverty (Kieffer, 2010), it is critically important that an emphasis on learning to read remain an instructional priority in upper - elementary classrooms as well as in middle and high schools.

In the sections that follow, I focus on sites of specific value to teachers of elementary grades, then upper grades.

The dysfunctional nature of how urban schools teach students to relate to authority begins in kindergarten and continues through the primary grades.With young children, authoritarian, directive teaching that relies on simplistic external rewards still works to control students.But as children mature and grow in size they become more aware that the school's coercive measures are not really hurtful (as compared to what they deal with outside of school) and the directive, behavior modification methods practiced in primary grades lose their power to control.Indeed, school authority becomes counterproductive.From upper elementary grades upward students know very well that it is beyond the power of school authorities to inflict any real hurt.External controls do not teach students to want to learn; they teach the reverse.The net effect of this situation is that urban schools teach poverty students that relating to authority is a kind of game.And the deepest, most pervasive learnings that result from this game are that school authority is toothless and out of touch with their lives.What school authority represents to urban youth is «what they think they need to do to keep their school running.»

However, growth data from 2013 suggests that in the upper grades, on average, students maintain their high early achievement rather than moving further ahead.

Teachers in the upper elementary grades might want to check out a timeline - related article on Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site.

So much research has been done on homework — and the results are murky at best, even in upper grades.

In urban schools learning is offered in disconnected jolts.The work of the day is unconnected with the work of preceding days or subsequent ones.Life in urban schools is comprised of specific periods and discrete days each of which is forced to stand entirely on its own.If homework is not done, or books not taken home (behaviors which are universal for males and almost so for females by the completion of the upper elementary grades), everything students are taught must be compressed into isolated periods of «stand alone» days.Teachers and principals, as well as students, survive one day at a time.

Similarly, the National Education Association (NEA) reports, «General achievement [on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)-RSB- has increased little over the past three decades, particularly in the upper grades.»

At the upper grades, students might use an atlas to locate each city and mark the city's location on the map.

The activity can be used in a variety of social studies lessons — from an exploration of the local community to a class on international studies — and in both the upper elementary grades and middle school.

In addition, this study does not say much about racial interactions in the upper grades or about the effects of teachers» race on long - term outcomes such as attainment of further education or employment.

Students in elementary schools perform better on state tests than students in upper grades.

Students of South Shores participate in intensive arts experiences such as primary grades creative productions, visual art shows, and for over three decades upper grades have put on a full - scale musical production in the campus theater at Cal State University Dominguez Hills, gaining a valuable real life professional theater experience.

This of course meant that, on average, ratios of students to teachers in the upper grades would be higher for at least a portion of the school day.

Check out our December resource presentation of the month: NASA Space Place, an interactive website that is geared towards upper elementary students (grades 3 - 6), offering a wide array of hands - on activities that aim to engage students in science and technology education.

But teachers in the upper grades still had to focus on the material from the old standards students needed to pass the ISTEP +.

Although there was no statistically significant difference on mean beginning level of regular education, special education, and at - risk students, results showed that upper - class special education males and ninth - grade at - risk females had the largest increase in mean ending level within the program.

A Kindergarten teacher allowed students to pick their activity during group work by moving their magnetized name, and students in an upper grades classroom were given their station rotation assignments on a PowerPoint slide projected on the board each day.

In the upper grades, almost all of the student work was posted on walls or displayed in some form.

The strong ninth - grade program identifies and supports students who may otherwise fall off track; the college and career focus in the upper grades provides the relevant learning activities they need to stay on track.

Nor can our upper elementary grades do well on NAEP test items in reading when their language arts curriculum has eliminated the great children's literature that got them to read — especially boys.»

The Bierce story is at about the grade 8 level, the Conan Doyle excerpt is at the grade 8 level, and the text on estuaries is nowhere near college - level science reading, or even upper high school level reading.

Guthrie and his colleagues (2001) have investigated the effects of integrated reading instruction on reading achievement in the upper elementary grades (4 — 6).

Each child in the upper grades carries a «demerit card» on a lanyard around his or her neck, with eight demerits costing a detention.

It includes a first - time - ever cap on PE class sizes, increased access to electives, additional counseling support and additional social - emotional support at our highest - needs secondary schools, and reduced class sizes in the upper grades at the 55 highest - need elementary schools.

Students reading on their own as they move towards the upper grades is important for their development.

Whether you teach primary or upper elementary grades, your administrator is counting on you to teach your students to quantifiably improve in writing this school year.

On the other hand, many Audubon supporters believe that the school's overall enrollment would grow, especially in the upper elementary grades, if parents were assured of a high school to send their children to, Zervigon said.

If you work with students in upper elementary grades, you may want to discuss the different sections of a newspaper (feature articles, real estate section, classified ads, sports, letters to the editor, and so on).

In upper grades, students could contribute to and reflect on their portfolios as well.

Toggling that switch with the lever in D allows blocking out upper gear ratios to avoid unwanted automatic shifts while towing heavy loads on aggressive grades.

The upper canopy look is accented with an available Dual Panel Panoramic Moonroof (standard on SL and Platinum grades), which gives front and rear occupants an uninhibited view of the sky.

The 5.7 - litre, 363 - hp Hemi V - 8 is a $ 2,500 option on the upper three grades, and now gets an eight - speed automatic transmission to bring it in line with the V - 6.

But the quality is evident in the grades of vinyl used throughout — soft - touch on the upper dash, doors and centre console — and the general feel of the controls is beyond reproach.

Lux amenities are, unsurprisingly, few and far between, but a Rockford Fosgate audio system, Bluetooth technology and leather seating are on the options menu, and upper - grade Xterra's feature roof - mounted off - road lights and other rugged hardware.